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The Ferns of South Africa. 
broad, and almost destitute of scales ; and there is every gradation 
from this, down to the dwarf rock grown specimens with fronds 
three inches long, three-quarter inch broad, and densely covered 
with reddish scales. This latter seems to agree in every respect 
with the description and figure of Mohria vestita, Bkr. (leones 
Plant, plate 1696), from Kilimanjaro. 
Another form, M. achilleaefolia, Lowe, which is very much cut, 
and has the fertile pinnae as much cut, is represented in Dr. 
Atherstone’s collection without locality. 
Mohria caffrorum. Desv.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 171 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 
436 . 
Polypodium caffrorum. Linn. Sp. 7905. 
Adiantum caffrorum. Linn.; Thunb. Prod. 173; Thunb. FI. Cap. 736 
(not of Swartz). 
Osmunda thurifraga. Commers. ; Boiy. 
Mohria thurifraga. Swartz.; Schl. Adum. 12 ; Kze. Linn. 10.492 ; 
Pappe and Rawson, 46. 
Mohria crenata. Desv. 
African Islands, and Africa south of the equator ; generally in 
damp places in the outskirts of the forests. 
West. — Table Mountain, Devil’s Mountain, and Lion’s Mountain 
(Bergins), Hanglip (Mund and Maire), Tulbagh, Caledon, Dutuitskloof 
(Kunze). 
East. — Fish River (Thunberg), Somerset East (Bolus), Bushman’s River 
(Zeyher). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Bolus, 330), Komgha (Flanagan), Main, Transkei (Mrs. 
Young), common in Perie, Stutterheim, Chumie, and other forests. 
Natal. — Common (Wood, Buchanan, M‘Ken). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Zeyher), near Johannesburg (D. Crawford). 
Sub-Order VI. — MARATTiACEiE. 
Genus XXXVI. — Marattia. Smith. 
Capsules united in a double line into a concrete sorus. Sori 
on the back of ordinary pinnae. Vernation circinate. A small 
tropical genus, rare in South Africa. 
